

PGIM Jennison International Opportunities ETF
$62.41−0.69 (−1.09%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.54%
- Fund size
- $61M
- 1Y return
- −2.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.19%
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $62.15
- 52W range
The ETF.net PJIO Grade
Score 57 of 100 sits in the B band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.AScore 84Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 26Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 56Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 29Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 58Category rank
Our read on PJIO
BJennison's concentrated international growth playbook, in an ETF: a compact book of non-U.S. stocks picked one at a time. PGIM has announced a rename and a fee cut to 0.54%, so read the current prospectus.
Seeks long-term growth of capital by investing primarily in non-U.S. companies, including issuers in emerging and frontier markets, using fundamental research and systematic portfolio construction.
Why people hold it
- Real stock picking, not index-hugging: a non-diversified, high-conviction growth portfolio from Jennison Associates, which PGIM says has run equity strategies for over 50 years.pgim.com
- The mandate reaches past the usual developed-market blue chips into emerging and frontier issuers, measured against the MSCI ACWI ex USA Index.
- PGIM has announced an expense ratio cut to 0.54%, level with the cheapest active international growth funds in its peer set (CGXU at 0.54%, JIG at 0.55%).pgim.com
Worth knowing
- PGIM has announced a repositioning and rename to the PGIM Jennison Focused International Equity ETF, so the strategy described today may not match the one after the change.pgim.com
- Non-diversified by design: a slip in one big holding lands harder than it would in a broad index fund, and growth styles can sit out of favor for long stretches.pgim.com
- Small and lightly traded, so bid-ask spreads carry more weight here than at a mega-fund. Limit orders are the standard tool for that.
PJIO Holdings
- Stocks
- —
- 53%
- TSM
Sectors
Geography
PJIO Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | PJIO |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +3.0% |
| 1 month | −2.8% |
| 3 months | −11.0% |
| 1 year | −2.4% |
| 3 years | — |
| 5 years | — |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | PJIO |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +3.0% | |
| 2025 | +17.7% | |
| 2024 | +4.6% | |
| 2023 | −0.4% |
PJIO in the news
PJIO Dividends
- 0.19%
- $0.12
- $0.12 per share
- Irregular
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 30, 2025 | Jan 2, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Dec 27, 2024 | Jan 3, 2025 | $0.11 |
PJIO Risk
- 18.7%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 0.33
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −19.4%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 1.12
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
PJIO Cost
- The middle half of International Active Growth funds
- Median 0.55%
1 of the 14 International Active Growth funds charge less.